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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Date manipulation using awk Post 302860219 by victory101 on Saturday 5th of October 2013 03:54:16 AM
Old 10-05-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
I mixed up the array and the split string in split(), try this:

Code:
gawk -F, -v OFS=, '{ split($4, A, "-"); T=mktime(sprintf("%04d %02d %02d 00 00 00", A[1], A[2], A[3]));
        $4=int((systime()-T)/(60*60*24));
 } 1' inputfile

Thanks for the change, it worked as expected Smilie. This gave me an opportunity to get an insight on awk programming.
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HTML::FormFu::Filter::CompoundSprintf(3pm)		User Contributed Perl Documentation		HTML::FormFu::Filter::CompoundSprintf(3pm)

NAME
HTML::FormFu::Filter::CompoundSprintf - CompoundSprintf filter SYNOPSIS
--- element: - type: Multi name: date elements: - name: day - name: month - name: year filter: - type: CompoundSprintf sprintf: '%02d-%02d-%04d' # get the compound-value my $date = $form->param_value('date'); DESCRIPTION
For use with a HTML::FormFu::Element::Multi group of fields. Uses a sprintf pattern to join the input from several fields into a single value. METHODS
sprintf Arguments: $string "sprintf" pattern used to join the individually submitted parts. The pattern is passed to the perl-core "sprintf" function. field_order Inherited. See "field_order" in HTML::FormFu::Filter::_Compound for details. --- element: - type: Multi name: date elements: - name: month - name: day - name year filter: - type: CompoundSprintf field_order: - day - month - year AUTHOR
Carl Franks, "cfranks@cpan.org" LICENSE
This library is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.14.2 2012-01-23 HTML::FormFu::Filter::CompoundSprintf(3pm)
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